ITALY: Siege of Benito

The week in
Italy was somewhat obscured by a strict news censorship, but there was
every reason to believe that the murder of Socialist Deputy Giacomo
Matteoti (allegedly by disciples of Premier Benito Mussolini —TIME,
June 23) had aroused the Italian people to a dangerous pitch and shaken
the very foundation of Fascismo.

The strict censorship that was enforced
had the effect of pounding truth and prevarication to a frothy
frazzle and it became impossible to discover precisely what had
happened or was happening at...